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Night is a world lit by itself.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
Night
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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.
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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
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The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.
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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
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If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!
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My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.
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He who tells the truth says almost nothing.
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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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